fomentation
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The cause of this fomentation of tourists was a gleaming, new, $750,000 Latter-day Saints Temple.
From Time Magazine Archive
Concerned that Fanny was not improving, Emma and Elizabeth sent for the apothecary, a Mr. B., who “ordered fomentation with poppy heads,” Emma noted.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
Stupe, stūp, n. a fomentation, or rather the tow or cloth dipped in it, and used in its application.—v.t. to treat with a stupe.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The pain seemed similar to that which he had felt in his leg, which had been relieved by the application of the boracic fomentation.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith
By twisting the sticks in the opposite direction the fomentation can be wrung very dry.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
